Danny Mullins hoping to be back early next month Danny Mullins is nearing a return to race-riding after being injured in a first-fence fall from Summer Hill at Limerick on July 10th. The Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey was enjoying the action at Listowel yesterday and told journalist Alan Magee: “I’m hoping to be back the first weekend in October for Killarney and Tipperary. “I’ve actually been riding out for the last three weeks and I was hoping I’d be back for Listowel but the specialist wanted me to give it another week or two. “I thought that, physically, I was fine but he wouldn’t scan me again and just told me no! “You ask a man to do a job and you let him do it, I suppose. I’m a jockey and that’s his job, to get me back in shape. “I’d love to be racing here this week. I’m back riding plenty of work and I’m doing plenty of schooling at home, so hopefully there’s a good winter ahead of me. “I’ve been doing a lot of work in the gym. Three weeks after I got the fall I was up in Santry (Sports Surgrey Clinic) and Enda King (head of performance rehabilitation) was putting me through his paces. "The work that I’ve done all the way through is standing to me now, to see the level of fitness I have before I go back riding. “I feel a hundred per cent now but, in another ten days or so, I’d like to think I’ll be a hundred and ten per cent. Asked on the nature of his injuries, Mullins added: “It was a fractured C7 vertebra and a crushed T5 and T6. It is what it is and there was nothing displaced. It has healed well and I’m ready to kick on again."
